Sunday, March 13, 2011

Tennis News
At $4.5M Indian Wells Open,

[R2] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) bt (19) Marcos Baghdatis (CYP,22) 75 60

[R3] (Q) Somdev Devvarman (IND,84) vs Xavier Malisse (BEL,52)

Doubles
[R1] Rohan Bopanna (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Eric Butorac (USA)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO) 76(4) 64

Somdev scored his best win of the career beating current top-25 and former top-10 player Cyprusian Marcos Baghdatis ... Somdev was serving well from the begining but Marcos take first break in 5th game to take 2-3 lead ... Buji immediately broke back to gave indication what's coming next ... After that both players hold their serves ... At 6-5 Somdev take crucial break converting first set point @30 to won first set ... In second set Somdev take full advantage of Marcos's struggled with first serve ... In second set Marcos's first serve percentage was 46% and had 6 double faults ... But nobody expected bagel to Marcos by more than 60 places lower ranlked player ... Marcos failed to win a single game in second set to gave Somi great win of his small career in just 1 hour and 13 mins ... In the second set Somi didn't lose a single point on his serve ... In total Marcos managed to win only 10 pts in the second set to 28 by Somi ... Next Somdev is facing Belgian Xavier Malisse, who upset Freenchman Tsonga in second round.

In doubles Rohan and Aisam had winning start ... They won first set in tie-break after both pairs failed to break opponent's service game ... In second set both pairs traded early breaks but Rohan and Aisam take crucial second break to won match in straight sets ... Now they will face winner between Lee-Mahesh and Aspelin-Knowle in second round.

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